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Ground Control

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Ground Control
Ground Control cover
Developers
Massive Entertainment
Dark Conspiracy High Voltage Software[1]
Publishers
Retail Sierra Entertainment
Digital Rebellion Developments
Release dates
Windows June 1, 2000
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase, Expansion pack
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Bird's-eye view
Controls Multiple select, Point and select
Genres RTS
Themes Sci-fi
Series Ground Control
Ground Control on HowLongToBeat
Ground Control on MobyGames
Ground Control on Wikipedia
Ground Control
Ground Control 2000
Ground Control II: Operation Exodus 2004

Key points

Ground Control has been released as a free download.

General information

Ground Control Veterans
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SecuROM DRM.
Windows
GamersGate
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Anthology. Also bundled with the sequel.
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Anthology
Windows
Green Man Gaming Playfire Client Anthology
Windows
Steam
DRM-free after installation through Steam client (notes may include more details)
Anthology
Windows
ZOOM Platform
DRM-free
Anthology
Windows
GamersGate (unavailable)
DRM-free after installation (requires an internet connection during installation)
Anthology.
Windows
The base game has been released as a free download in order to promote the sequel.
A free demo version is available from SierraHelp.

Version differences

Ground Control Anthology includes the base game and the Dark Conspiracy expansion pack.

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Dark Conspiracy
Windows

Essential improvements

Patches

The latest official patch is 1.011, and is available from Patches-Scrolls.

Map packs

Five official map packs are available from Patches-Scrolls.

Game data

In-game general settings.
In-game general settings.

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\data\games\settings.dat[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/254820/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\data\games\game*[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/254820/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

In-game general video settings.
In-game general video settings.
In-game advanced video settings.
In-game advanced video settings.

Graphics feature State WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution
Only supports 640x480, 800x600 and 1024x768 by default. See Widescreen resolution.
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
See Widescreen resolution.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anti-aliasing (AA)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
Forced Vsync in hardware rendering, software rendering is uncapped.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Follows display refresh rate.

Widescreen resolution

Use Ground Control Resolution Changer[citation needed]
Improved successor to the below resolution changer application
Instructions[2]
  1. Download the following archive.
  2. Go to the installation folder.
  3. Extract all the files from the archive and overwrite.
  4. Open Resolution Changer.exe, then set the desired Width and Height.
  5. Launch the game through the Launch Ground Control.bat file.

Notes

If using Dynamic Super Resolution or Virtual Super Resolution and 4K Ultra HD, see this fix.

Input

In-game key map settings.
In-game key map settings.
In-game mouse settings.
In-game mouse settings.
In-game joystick settings.
In-game joystick settings.

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Game uses "software mouse". This means cursor will be laggy at lower frame rates.
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Very limited modern controller support.
Full controller support
Controller remapping
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion
Controller types
XInput-compatible controllers
PlayStation controllers
Generic/other controllers
Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
Retail and GOG.com only.
German
Retail and GOG.com only.
Italian
Retail only.
Spanish
Retail only.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
8
Online play
8

Connection types

Type Native Notes
Matchmaking
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Requires download of official files.
Self-hosting
Direct IP

Ports

Protocol Port(s) and/or port range(s)
TCP 15001, 15101, 15200, 20000-21000, 25000-25499
UDP 20000-21000
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

Issues fixed

Poor framerate on Windows 8

Instructions[citation needed]
  1. Download the following archive.
  2. Go to the installation folder, and extract the file.

Near-illegible text and buttons when using downscaling

If Dynamic Super Resolution or Virtual Super Resolution is used to achieve 4K resolutions, the game's text and buttons will become nearly illegible due to the downsampling involved.
Use dgVoodoo2[3]
  1. Follow all instructions for the widescreen resolution fix, ensuring width and height are set to one of the following:
    1. 16:9 monitors: 1024 width, 576 height
    2. 16:10/8:5 monitors: 1024 width, 640 height
    3. 21:9 monitors: 1024 width, 432 height
  2. Download the latest version of dgVoodoo 2.
  3. Extract D3Dlmm.dll and DDraw.dll to <path-to-game> from the downloaded ZIP file.
  4. Extract dgVoodooSetup.exe to the folder of your choice from the downloaded ZIP file.
  5. Navigate to the folder your extracted dgVoodooSetup.exe to, then run dgVoodooSetup.exe.
  6. From the window which appears, click Add under Config folder / Running instance.
  7. Navigate to <path-to-game> using the window which appears, then click Select Folder.
  8. Ensure <path-to-game> is selected in the dropdown box Config folder / Running instance.
  9. Click on the DirectX tab.
  10. Under Resolution, select your monitor's native 4K resolution from the dropdown list.
  11. Click on the Apply button to save the configuration, the click OK.

Notes

This fix has been tested with Nvidia Dynamic Super Resolution.

Other information

API

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Multiplayer WON (World Opponent Network)

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 98, ME
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium II 233 MHz
System memory (RAM) 32 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 465 MB
Video card (GPU) 4 MB of VRAM
DirectX 7.0a compatible
The game has software rendering mode, which may have lower system requirements.
Windows 98 and ME are only supported with the original ATI Radeon, ATI Radeon 7200, and Nvidia video cards


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
  2. 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/254820/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (254820) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

  1. High Voltage Software Additional Games
  2. Verified by User:Expack3 on 2016-06-30
  3. Verified by User:Expack3 on 2016-06-06